VMware ESXi Contracts in Bristol

VMware ESXi (formerly ESX Server)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring VMware ESXi skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware ESXi over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 60 94
Rank change year-on-year +6 +34 +3
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 14 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.19% 1.32% 0.56%
As % of the System Software category 1.59% 13.46% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 2
10th Percentile - £414 £467
25th Percentile £569 £483 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -10.71% +72.31%
75th Percentile £606 £541 £603
90th Percentile - £591 £613
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £72.75 -
South West median hourly rate - £72.75 -

All System Software Skills
Bristol

VMware ESXi falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 63 104 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 11.73% 9.84% 8.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 71 80
10th Percentile £198 £225 £163
25th Percentile £213 £435 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +31.25% -14.89%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £566
90th Percentile £674 £725 £641
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 7
10th Percentile £63.22 £66.11 £43.90
25th Percentile £65.80 £69.09 -
Median hourly rate £70.85 £80.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% +23.08% +271.43%
75th Percentile £75.15 £90.00 -
90th Percentile £77.28 - £65.40
South West median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings citing VMware ESXi as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for VMware ESXi in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in Bristol.

Daily rate trend for VMware ESXi in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware ESXi in Bristol.

Hourly rate trend for VMware ESXi in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veritas
1 1 (100.00%) VMware